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- Pre-historic art (9744 bytes)
7: ...est attempts to recreate the human form. A recent find, [[the Mask of La Roche-Cotard]] in [[France]],...
9: ...es that it was decorated by someone and used as a figurine, regardless of how it may have been formed....
15: ...nium BC]]. The Jōmon people were making clay figures and vessels decorated with patterns made by ...
17: ...olithic]], the earliest being the anthropomorphic figurines, often embellished by animals from the ver...
18: ...present either humans or mixtures of humans and [[fish]]. - Heraldry (23465 bytes)
3: ... cases of "landscape heraldry" all or part of the field is some sort of landscape), and then it descri...
7: There are no strict definitions of the shades of colours used in heraldry,...
9: ...n; this is particularly useful when there is insufficient space to display the entire coat-of-arms, an...
14: ... shield are specified in the blazon (and the specific type of shield is sometimes followed to the exte...
16: ...''cartouche'', the tincture of which is then specified. - History of astronomy (13532 bytes)
4: ...een stars and planets; as Stars remain relatively fixed over the [[century|centuries]], while planets ...
8: ...lineation]]s (such as [[Stonehenge]]) probably fulfilled both astronomical and [[religion|religious]] ...
14: ...ibe their designs are conservatively dated to the first millennium BC, but their contents appear to be...
46: ...ment of [[precession]] and the compilation of the first star catalog. [[Ptolemy]] later referred to th...
62: ...iter (planet)|Jupiter]] in [[1610]]. This was the first observation of satellites orbiting another pla... - Atlantis (41399 bytes)
2: ...ence and location have never been confirmed. The first mentions we have are from the [[classical Gree...
12: ...e island of Atlantis. Atlantis might be a work of fiction, yet an extended [[parable]] intended to ill...
14: ...n the centre of the island at a distance of about fifty [[Ancient_weights_and_measures#Length_4|stadia...
17: ...tinent beyond the islands, in order to offer sacrifice to the gods of the ocean.
23: ...] and the wise Silenus mentions the Meropids, the first men with huge cities of gold and silver. Silen... - Wonders of the Ancient World (11560 bytes)
3: The [[Seven Wonders of the Ancient World]] is the first known list of the most remarkable man-made cre...
26: ...h as Wonders of the Middle Ages (implying no specific limitation to seven), Seven Wonders of the Middl...
30: <!--ONE. STONEHENGE-->*[[Stonehenge]]
34: <!--FIVE. NANJING-->*[[Porcelain Tower of Nanjing]]
47: ...ning of Construction-->||'''Date Finished'''<!--Official opening-->||'''Location - Stone Age (17593 bytes)
6: The period encompasses the first widespread use of technology in human evolutio...
8: ...ols made from other (softer) materials. It is the first age in the [[three-age system]] and was subdi...
11: ...around 3 [[million years ago]], starting with the first [[hominid]] tool-making in [[Africa]]. Most [[...
26: ...s]]'', appeared. ''H. erectus'' learnt to control fire and created more complex chopper tools, as well...
31: ...ca around 100,000 years ago. Although often identified in the public's mind as primitive, there is evi...
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